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3.96 AVERAGE
funny
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Thank you for the ARC!
This was such an adorable YA romance! The "you can't fall for me" vibes had me hooked from the start. They team up for some sweet revenge, but of course, end up falling for each other along the way. It's such a cute sapphic romance filled with humor, love, and plenty of jokes. The chemistry between the characters was fantastic, and I couldn't help but root for them the whole time!
This was such an adorable YA romance! The "you can't fall for me" vibes had me hooked from the start. They team up for some sweet revenge, but of course, end up falling for each other along the way. It's such a cute sapphic romance filled with humor, love, and plenty of jokes. The chemistry between the characters was fantastic, and I couldn't help but root for them the whole time!
Revenge pact turned romance, let’s gooooo!! I loved this book. It was cute, and laugh out loud funny at times. Beau and Charm? I adored them!
I love a good book with a “we can’t fall for each other” storyline because you KNOW what’s coming. The more I got to know Beau and Charm, the more I rooted for them both (individually and together.)
And while this was a “revenge” book, that ending felt so healing to me. No spoilers, but I will say that it just made this book even better that things worked out the way they did.
I really enjoyed the writing. I’m excited to read more books by these authors! I definitely recommend this to anyone looking to pick up a new upper ya book.
A huge thank you to Simon Teen for a free copy of this book!
I love a good book with a “we can’t fall for each other” storyline because you KNOW what’s coming. The more I got to know Beau and Charm, the more I rooted for them both (individually and together.)
And while this was a “revenge” book, that ending felt so healing to me. No spoilers, but I will say that it just made this book even better that things worked out the way they did.
I really enjoyed the writing. I’m excited to read more books by these authors! I definitely recommend this to anyone looking to pick up a new upper ya book.
A huge thank you to Simon Teen for a free copy of this book!
2025 reads: 159/300
i received a digital review copy from the publisher as part of their influencer program. this did not affect my rating.
beau wants to know if the girl she’s been secretly hooking up with—maia moon, the most popular girl in school—has feelings for her, too. but when she goes to the last big party before prom, she finds maia about to kiss someone else. charm, the other person, is excited when she realizes she’s been reading maia’s signals correctly in their tutoring sessions…until their kiss is interrupted and maia accepts her boyfriend’s promposal days later. now, both beau and maia are heartbroken. they make a plan to get back at maia, but as they get closer to their end goal, they also get closer to each other.
this was a cute book! the premise reminded me just a bit of a book i read last year, rani choudhury must die (because of the getting-back-at-a-two-timer aspect), so i was eager to get into this one. i really liked how the plot of this book played out, and i even started to feel for maia a little. it was also fun to see the dynamic between beau and charm, especially since this book was dual pov and they are such opposites. as beau is much more experienced, she teaches charm how to “seduce” maia for their plan to work. this led to some pretty interesting moments!
overall, this was a lovely YA romance. i’m looking forward to reading more from both authors.
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Thank you to Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing for the gifted ARC! This review contains my personal thoughts and opinions.
Call Your Boyfriend is a heartfelt coming-of-age story that blends lighthearted moments with deeper themes of identity, friendship, and love. This book did a great job of offering dual perspectives and a realistic portrayal of teenage relationships and the complexities of growing up.
What stood out most to me were the characters. Charm and Beau each brought their own unique voice to the story, and I found myself genuinely invested in their individual journeys, but also in their friendship. Charm and her BFF Ezra's friendship, in particular, was a highlight. It was authentic, warm, funny, and refreshingly supportive.
I thought the book started off strong; the revenge plot idea had me intrigued. However, as the story progressed, the pacing began to falter a bit. The ending felt rushed and left me wanting a bit more closure. While not completely unsatisfying, it didn’t quite match the anticipation that had been established earlier in the book.
Overall, Call Your Boyfriend is an enjoyable read. I think this is a great book recommendation for teens who are finding their identity and want something relatable to their high school experience.
Thank you NetGalley and Simon Teen for this arc. All opinions are my own. I enjoyed this sapphic rom-com overall. It was very readable and found myself wanting to keep returning to the story. I did like the main characters and their supporting characters, but felt like there were some complex family dynamics that were just barely touched on and then brushed away. I kind of wish other characters and storylines had been explored more (would honestly love more books in this world). I also want to mention that there is bi erasure throughout the book and it was barely mentioned in the end, without resolution or growth. At the end of the day, these are teen characters, so I definitely have some grace for their understandings of themselves and others, just wish the authors had given more time to addressing this. Again, I did enjoy the read and would read more from these authors in the future.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Biphobia, Cursing, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol
Minor: Sexual content
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Thank you to Simon Teen for the advance reader copy. These opinions are my own.
This takes place in the lead up to summer and particularly to prom. After being hurt by Maia, Beau and Charm team up to get revenge by plotting to have Maia fall for Charm and be publicly dumped by her. I appreciated the queer representation and the discussion of different paths after high school. However, some of this felt not just mean-spirited, but also somewhat biphobic to me. It ultimately concluded with more positive morals, but especially with a YA book, I would have liked a bit more clarity and acceptance of how people's orientation can change.
This takes place in the lead up to summer and particularly to prom. After being hurt by Maia, Beau and Charm team up to get revenge by plotting to have Maia fall for Charm and be publicly dumped by her. I appreciated the queer representation and the discussion of different paths after high school. However, some of this felt not just mean-spirited, but also somewhat biphobic to me. It ultimately concluded with more positive morals, but especially with a YA book, I would have liked a bit more clarity and acceptance of how people's orientation can change.
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
John Tucker Must Die vibes in a YA sapphic romance — intriguing, no?
This is a cute story about two girls who team up to get revenge on a third girl who treated them poorly. As they start scheming, they, of course, start falling for each other instead.
Charm is the star in this story. She’s so funny and adorable, and I wish the book was solely from her POV! I found Beau to be fairly unlikable. I do think the book felt long and flat in many places, which kept me from wanting keep flipping the pages. Also, why do all the characters have one syllable names including Enzo and Ezra who have feelings for each other?! I couldn’t remember who was who lol.
For educators: this book is mostly clean in terms of what the characters are doing but there are many sexual references
Thanks to NetGalley & the publisher for this arc
This is a cute story about two girls who team up to get revenge on a third girl who treated them poorly. As they start scheming, they, of course, start falling for each other instead.
Charm is the star in this story. She’s so funny and adorable, and I wish the book was solely from her POV! I found Beau to be fairly unlikable. I do think the book felt long and flat in many places, which kept me from wanting keep flipping the pages. Also, why do all the characters have one syllable names including Enzo and Ezra who have feelings for each other?! I couldn’t remember who was who lol.
For educators: this book is mostly clean in terms of what the characters are doing but there are many sexual references
Thanks to NetGalley & the publisher for this arc
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Beau is used to straight girls using her as an experiment and then ditching her. She's fed up with popular girl Maia doing what's been done to her many times before, so she goes to a party with the underwear Maia gave her to tell her that it's over. When she's there, she walks in on her nearly kissing another girl, Charm.
Charm has been tutoring Maia in trigonometry and has a feeling that Maia is falling for her, so she goes to the party with the intent to figure things out with her. Unfortunately, after Beau walks in on her and Maia together, Maia flees. Later, she and Beau see her kissing her on-again homophobic boyfriend, and decide to plot revenge: Beau will teach Charm her seduction techniques so that she can teach Charm how to get Maia to fall for her, and then once she's done with her boyfriend for good, Charm will break her heart. Unfortunately, their mutual rule they made as a part of their plan of not falling for each other seems to be a bit difficult to follow.
I really enjoyed this revenge-turned-rom-com. I would agree with other reviewers that it feels like a gayer Do Revenge — it even uses the phrase "do revenge" at one point in the book. If you've watched that movie all the way through and are worried about the more toxic element of the relationship between the two female leads, though, don't worry, there's no situation in this book where one of the girls drives a car into the other on purpose. There is only trashcan manslaughter. The novel is sweet in the end, and even the flaky popular girl is surprisingly sympathetic. All of the characters feel well-rounded, which is surprising for a rom-com like this with a "designated villain".
I also am tired of books that promise revenge arcs but then have the characters unrealistically become obsessed with being perfect moral paragons in the name of "character development", so it was a relief that that didn't happen in this book. Beau, Charm and Maia were all allowed to be messy and imperfect, and there was still character development, but realistic character development. I honestly would've loved to have a chapter from Maia's POV as well, but the book was still great without it.
It was really great to see families represented in this book that weren't the typical nuclear family, with Beau's sister and Charm's aunt being more maternal to the girls than their biological mothers were. The families in this book were also allowed to be messy without being tropey, which I appreciated. Beau and Charm also have ambitions beyond just revenge, which helped them feel like fuller characters. The book also had great (in my opinion) representation of what it's like to be a person of color at a mostly-White high school, since Charm is Black and Maia is mixed.
The book was definitely more sexual than a lot of other YA in terms of the amount of sexual references, which makes sense since they're in their senior year of high school. I'd categorize this as upper YA, and if you're bothered by teens talking a lot about sex, this would not be the book for you.
Call Your Boyfriend will be released July 1 by Simon & Schuster. Thank you to Simon & Schuster, the authors and Netgalley for an advance reader copy.
I'm looking forward to reading more books by these authors!
Charm has been tutoring Maia in trigonometry and has a feeling that Maia is falling for her, so she goes to the party with the intent to figure things out with her. Unfortunately, after Beau walks in on her and Maia together, Maia flees. Later, she and Beau see her kissing her on-again homophobic boyfriend, and decide to plot revenge: Beau will teach Charm her seduction techniques so that she can teach Charm how to get Maia to fall for her, and then once she's done with her boyfriend for good, Charm will break her heart. Unfortunately, their mutual rule they made as a part of their plan of not falling for each other seems to be a bit difficult to follow.
I really enjoyed this revenge-turned-rom-com. I would agree with other reviewers that it feels like a gayer Do Revenge — it even uses the phrase "do revenge" at one point in the book. If you've watched that movie all the way through and are worried about the more toxic element of the relationship between the two female leads, though, don't worry, there's no situation in this book where one of the girls drives a car into the other on purpose. There is only trashcan manslaughter. The novel is sweet in the end, and even the flaky popular girl is surprisingly sympathetic. All of the characters feel well-rounded, which is surprising for a rom-com like this with a "designated villain".
I also am tired of books that promise revenge arcs but then have the characters unrealistically become obsessed with being perfect moral paragons in the name of "character development", so it was a relief that that didn't happen in this book. Beau, Charm and Maia were all allowed to be messy and imperfect, and there was still character development, but realistic character development. I honestly would've loved to have a chapter from Maia's POV as well, but the book was still great without it.
It was really great to see families represented in this book that weren't the typical nuclear family, with Beau's sister and Charm's aunt being more maternal to the girls than their biological mothers were. The families in this book were also allowed to be messy without being tropey, which I appreciated. Beau and Charm also have ambitions beyond just revenge, which helped them feel like fuller characters. The book also had great (in my opinion) representation of what it's like to be a person of color at a mostly-White high school, since Charm is Black and Maia is mixed.
The book was definitely more sexual than a lot of other YA in terms of the amount of sexual references, which makes sense since they're in their senior year of high school. I'd categorize this as upper YA, and if you're bothered by teens talking a lot about sex, this would not be the book for you.
Call Your Boyfriend will be released July 1 by Simon & Schuster. Thank you to Simon & Schuster, the authors and Netgalley for an advance reader copy.
I'm looking forward to reading more books by these authors!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship
Minor: Biphobia, Sexual content, Pregnancy
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for this ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts.
I liked the cover and the title. The book had a good beginning. I had some laughs and quotable moments. The characters were cute as their inner monologue went on about the other person. As well as relatable queer/lgbt representation. However, along the way things felt flat. To the point the story seemed to last longer than it should have.
Wishing the authors much success.
I liked the cover and the title. The book had a good beginning. I had some laughs and quotable moments. The characters were cute as their inner monologue went on about the other person. As well as relatable queer/lgbt representation. However, along the way things felt flat. To the point the story seemed to last longer than it should have.
Wishing the authors much success.